NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     devname - get device name

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <sys/stat.h>
     #include <stdlib.h>

     char *
     devname(dev_t dev, mode_t type);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The devname() function returns a pointer to the name of  the
block or
     character  device in /dev with a device number of dev, and a
file type
     matching the one encoded in type which must be one of  S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR.
     If no device matches the specified values, or no information
is available,
 a pointer to the string "??" is returned.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     stat(2), dev_mkdb(8)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The devname function call appeared in 4.4BSD.

OpenBSD      3.6                           June      4,      1993